Author: Alade Adisa

The Victory Idewele Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has paid a N10 million fine to free 27 inmates in Kogi State. The Chief Judge of Kogi, Justice Josiah Majebi, announced the gesture on Saturday during a visit to the state’s correctional centres. The foundation also plans to train the freed inmates for three months in Abuja to help them acquire skills and become self-reliant. The initiative benefited inmates from various centres, including Koton-Karfe, Kabba, and Ankpa. The Chief Judge praised the foundation’s efforts to help reintegrate the inmates into society. Justice Majebi said, “Aside from the payment of fines and…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has reduced its ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, to N899 per litre, from the previous N1,020 for oil marketers. Spokesperson for the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN), Joseph Obele, confirmed the new price cut in a statement on Saturday. According to a document released by the NNPC’s commercial department and sighted by journalists, the price reduction follows a regional pricing scheme, with the new prices set as follows: Lagos, N899.0; Warri, N970.0; Oghara, N970.0; Port Harcourt, N970.0; and Calabar, N970.0. This adjustment follows…

In reaction to the barrage of tragedies that has befallen the country recently, especially the stampede deaths in Anambra and Abuja, President Bola Tinubu has cancelled all his official events in Lagos for Saturday, including his attendance at the 2024 Lagos Boat Regatta, in honour of the victims. Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy), Bayo Onanuga, in a statement noted that the two tragedies claimed many lives and left many others injured. Onanuga stated that the president was scheduled to watch the boat parade and other activities of the Boat Regatta from the waterfront of his Queen’s Drive…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has strongly refuted allegations by Nigerien authorities that the Lakurawa terrorist group, allegedly aided by foreign security forces, including Nigerian security personnel, was responsible for the attack on the Niger-Benin oil pipeline on December 13, 2024, in Gaya, Dosso Region of the Niger Republic. In a statement issued by the Acting Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, the Government of Nigeria expressed condolences to the Government of Niger over the unfortunate pipeline attack. However, it emphasized that the perpetrators were neither supported nor assisted by Nigerian authorities. The statement read, “The…

Three students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State could not survive a road accident that occurred along the Ilisan-Ago-Iwoye Road on Friday afternoon. A statement released on Saturday by the spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, said the students who were passengers in a commercial vehicle lost their lives in the accident caused by the driver who was driving at a speed. She said, “A fatal motor accident occurred on December 20, 2024, at about 3:30 pm along the Ilisan-Ago Iwoye Road. “The incident involved a commercial Opel Safira with the licence plate Lagos AAA-126HE,…

Citing mischief and misinformation,theNigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has refuted a report in some newspapers that the old Port Harcourt Refinery which was recently re-streamed , has been shut down.In a statement signed today by Olufemi Soneye, NNPC’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, he said that the report was false, and that loading of petroleum products was still going on today.He urged the public to disregard the claim which is intended to cause panic.Soneye added: ”Our attention has been drawn to reports in a section of the media alleging that theOld Port-Harcourt Refinery re-streamed about two months,has been shut…

The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, has acknowledged that although some of the reforms introduced by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration have been challenging, but they were necessary for the long-term stability of the economy. “It’s true that some of them are quite painful, but we needed these reforms, especially the foreign exchange unification,” Rabiu said while also expressing confidence that the Nigerian economy is on the road to recovery. The BUA Group chairman said this while speaking with State House Correspondents after the Juma’at prayer with President Bola Tinubu in Lagos. “As you’ll remember, the exchange rate…

The Federal Government has allocated ₦27 billion for the entitlements of former presidents, vice presidents, heads of state, chiefs of staff, retired heads of service, and professors in the 2025 fiscal year. The beneficiaries of this allocation include former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari, alongside ex-vice-presidents Atiku Abubakar, Namadi Sambo, and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Other notable individuals expected to benefit from this allocation are ex-military Heads of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), as well as former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, and retired Chief of General Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe. Recall that President…

Major oil marketers lifting petrol, from Dangote Petroleum Refinery have reduced the price from N1,060 to N939.50 per litre. A number of oil major marketers, including MRS, have adjusted their pump prices to reflect the reduction as of Friday. At MRS filling station in Ojota, Lagos, the company sell petrol at N939.50 per litre Friday evening, although the Chairman of MRS, Alhaji Sayyu Idris Dantata, declined to comment when contacted. Relatedly, Dangote Petroleum Refinery has also cut its ex-pump price from N970 to N899.50 per litre. This move, according to the refinery, aims to provide relief to Nigerians ahead of…

A Rivers State high court sitting in Port Harcourt on Friday nullified the congresses of the All Progressives Congress in the state. The congress, which produced Chief Tony Okocha as the state chairman, was nullified following a contempt of court proceeding filed by the camp of the reinstated chairman of the party in the state, Chief Emeka Beke. The court had earlier issued an order stopping the conduct of the congresses in the state, but the APC defied the order of the court and went ahead to hold the exercise. The aggrieved members of the party, who had secured the…